On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Jeff wrote:
> I use slackware 8 with an AMD K6 II as a firewall/misc server and haven't had that problem..
>
> Is it a default slack install with the 2.2.19 kernel?
Yes.
> I updated mine to 2.4.14 yesterday going through the IP MASQ howto from the IP masq resource site and it got rid of several misc errors I was getting.
>
> You may want to do this just for shits.
>
> What eth card do you have? what driver is it using? what does ifconfig tell you? Are you on COX using DHCP?
rtl8139. I'm not sure what driver it's using. When I first installed
linux, the cards were already installed. During the installation they
were detected.
Here's what ifconfig says:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:96:02:0D:D0
inet addr:207.55.74.132 Bcast:207.55.74.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:308055 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:233574 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:311763283 (297.3 Mb) TX bytes:26646443 (25.4 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6100
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:96:02:3A:3B
inet addr:192.168.3.1 Bcast:192.168.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:35782 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:58030 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2508111 (2.3 Mb) TX bytes:78433661 (74.8 Mb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6200
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10667 (10.4 Kb) TX bytes:10667 (10.4 Kb)
> Sounds like a card problem to me.... but need more details.
>
> let me get this straight, after it acts up, you can still telnet into it but not ping?
I can't get into it at all. No ping, no telnet no http, nothing.
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